Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

We make a majority of our investments in those sectors and prioritize proven business models. We make a minority of our investments in new technology areas where deep technical innovation is occurring and where we believe there is will be a large future market opportunity. That drives every decision we make.

Private Equity 48

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Seed Stage 48

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Then Dhana Cohen pitched TheNextBigZing.com where she has collected various merchants with video reviews of products. Her upcoming campaign of reaching out to 100,000 moms will be one of the first concerted efforts to actually test her business model. She wants to sell these products on her site. PowerStores.in.

India 114

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 114

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. The concept, if technically as compelling as it sounds, could become a standard in building safety all over the world.

India 126

India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. Ric Telford, VP of cloud services, IBM pointed me to the rather significant move towards rolling out private clouds at large enterprises, a move that IBM is spearheading by providing full stacks of infrastructure technologies.

Cloud 117

Cloud Fractional CTO Entrepreneur Bandwidth 117

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Ankur has uncovered a very real and substantial problem in the transportation industry spanning road, rail, ship: very often vehicle capacity goes under utilized due to lack of information on cargo and its whereabouts, and lack of communication among shippers and their clients. I detected a major flaw in Kiran's business model assumption.

Entrepreneur 118

Entrepreneur India Technical Review Los Angeles 118

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

And EVEN if you ARE an experienced entrepreneur, all but just a few VCs still want to see customer validation, business model validation and traction, before they will invest. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). Kir Devries.

Cloud 115

Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Additional work in figuring out the precise go-to-market consumer, academic institution, or enterprise - each is a different business), and consequent business model and pricing model will help enhance the company's valuation. My assessment is that this is a good company that should be able to raise money at this point.

Illinois 114

Illinois Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Chicago 114

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

At today's session, first up, Ramkumar RS from Chennai, India, presented Mango DVM , an innovative solution to turn vendors of illegal, grey market music to legal distributors using a combination of mobile apps and media server technology. Ramkumar has made certain pricing model and delivery model assumptions that are yet to be validated.

India 119

India Guerilla Entrepreneur New Zealand 119

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

I was already Texas-bound to give my personal take on global trends in digital kid’s media, so when the Summit organisers opened applications for an integrated pitch event I filled out the form with a determined “pick me” focus. What better way to test your product and business model than in front of 200 people within your target sector!

Texas 48

Texas Stealth Austin Australia 48

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. 20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering. — all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model.

Founder 245

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. There are 20x more consumers online.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Yet the copper companies import nearly 100% of the advanced technology they use.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley Chile South America Venture Capital 335

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for business talent – go to the business meetups. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup. I think quick, do something, then review what I’ve learned.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

We reviewed the story of The Diary of Anne Frank and what she went through. Actually keeping the company in business, having it have a sustainable business model, having it pull in the funds that it needs to keep going, that's actually not a greedy thing to do. Like, "Oh, come on. That's so old fashioned." No big deal.

Dallas 68

Dallas Employee Government Social Media 68

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. Pretend that you are the investor.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Nir is contemplating various different business models and channel options, all the way from Freemium B-to-C to white labeling the solution for universities and colleges. I advised him to focus on the for-profit colleges and business schools in India and sell them a white label solution, hence a B-to-B business model.

Brazil 115

Brazil India Entrepreneur 115

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Juniper Networks Inc acquired Altor Networks, a company specializing in security for virtualization technology. Virtualization technology is increasingly in demand as large corporations try to cut back on hardware in their data centers. The technology was developed in collaboration with Bar-Ilan University.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review South Korea Mexico 87

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.

Programming 116

Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

ithacaVC

DECEMBER 1, 2012

Here is a guest post from Emma Collins that looks at the growth of education-technology ventures, and what these new models may mean for the future of both learning and business. Over the past few years, a growing number of education-tech companies have seen a surge in funding from venture capitalists.

Technical Review 53

Technical Review Iowa Silicon Valley Phoenix 53

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

Hilton E – Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur, discusses the impact of social media and technological innovation on culture, society and economic justice. A social translation program is one way you can make your website more accessible to a global audience for less. It means now is the best… ([link].

Omaha 79

Omaha Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Media 79

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. This doesn’t mean just more technology stuff, though we’ll get that. This is a revolution that will permanently reshape business as we know it and more importantly, change the quality of life across the entire planet for all who come after us.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review 335

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Updated Business tools for Startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Also includes the most popular platforms, based on a year of data on business buy and sell marketplace, Flippa.com. Girls in Tech.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? One of the impact initiatives I’m proudest of is founding Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York , a nonprofit and now the East Coast’s largest angel group. I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Partner Technical Review Cofounder 60